Beginning DB2: From Novice to Professional

Chapter 11. Using XML with DB2

Do you remember where you were when Armstrong landed on the moon? What about when the Berlin Wall fell? How about the day you first heard about XML—that it would relieve world hunger, bring global peace, and solve Fermat's last theorem, all before breakfast? Those heady days of the late 1990s were full of dot-com mania, with a liberal dose of XML to grease the wheels of ... well ... just about anything!

Of course, the great promises never quite materialized, but somehow XML hung on and became the de facto tool for many kinds of information interchange. At about the same time, many people in the database industry predicted the death of relational databases because XML was "the way of the future." Of course, a few wise ...